Amora

What Amora means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Amora yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #247 vs #733 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Amora?

US: Rising: up from #1036 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,259 girls got the name (#247 that year). First in the US records in 1984.

How common

• About 1 in 1,277 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 5,066 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MS (1.91 per 1,000 girls), MD (1.65 per 1,000 girls), SC (1.64 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Amora is #247 in the US and #733 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Amora were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Amara2,630 US · 449 E&W
• Amira2,168 US · 396 E&W
• Emory899 US · 6 E&W
• Amari804 US · 65 E&W
• Amirah603 US · 189 E&W
• Amoura570 US · 17 E&W
• Amyra201 US · 72 E&W
• Amiri266 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Amora

Girls

• Leilani#60Hawaiian, meaning “a lei; a child + heavenly, royal”^*
• Myla#210Editor’s note Up from #335 in 2015 to #210 in 2025 in the US
• Camila#19Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #19 vs #1,051 in 2025
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Valentina#35Same root as Valentine, meaning “strong, healthy”^*
• Esme#298Diminutive of Esmeralda, meaning “emerald”^*

For a brother

• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records
• Maximiliano#280Editor’s note Steady in the US: #302 in 2015 and #280 in 2025
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Amora’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.